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Become a better chess player with learning by repetition. Exercise from 3.000+ opening lines and discover their best continuation. Learn tactics from millions of puzzles split into 38 categories and 11 difficulty levels. Master 18.000+ endgame positions sorted by category and difficulty.

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intermediate release 0.2.1 is now available as a beta branch

Jun 11, 2024

This release contains the following upgrades:

A technical upgrade of the java runtime from version 8 to 17 to help resolve the latest look & feel problems with high-resolution monitors, and a better support of windows scaling system.
This development was more intense than initially anticipated as many unforeseen problems arise during the development of the upgrade, requiring a greater test effort.
An improved puzzle module with the following added features:
- The possibility to request an initial evaluation test that estimates your approximate tactical level and unlocks the according levels based on your test results.
  It has to be noted that this functionality is only available if no previous tests have already been passed...
  If this is not more the case, resetting your global puzzle statistics is the only way to access this feature again.
- The possibility to adjourn an ongoing level test so it can be resumed later on that day, or another day.
- The possibility to store and display the results of the user's latest sessions when playing puzzles in free mode.
Minor bugs corrections

How to use beta releases.

The following video shows how easily you can activate a Beta branch with the current Steam graphical interface : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3YyeeaNrqo

.. A few words about future beta release 0.2.2

The second part of the future Alpha Release 0.3.0 is already in the development phase..
It will feature a very interesting functionality where you can play against a Games database.
It will work at its best when you build a Games database containing the best games from the best Grand Masters in the world.
You and your opponent will only be allowed to play moves that have been played within that database. If not, you will receive hints about the moves that are still available to you.
You can then quickly and repetitively learn from the best players in the world, and also discover when they play different moves than what you would have played.
All moves played will be automatically analysed by the application's powerful position analyser, so you can then understand the reasons why grand master's moves are usually much better.
A first version of a graphical resume will also be introduced that will feature pie chart diagrams displayed next to the global accuracy percentage of the players.
This resume will automatically display each time you finish analysing an endgame / a game against the computer or a game within a games database.
Full support for Windows 11 players will also be added.

Chess Exerciser

how do i practice openings?

i really need help because i would love to train some openings. how does it works? how can i train them and have them be shown first, so i can memorize them? thx!

ACTIONBOMBA™

Dec 31, 2024 @ 4:27am

General Discussions

Quick Fix - Puzzle Analysis stalling

Feb 25, 2024

Quick fix for the puzzle analysis stalling when showing the engine configuration screen

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Chess Exerciser, major alpha version 0.2.0 has been released

Feb 7, 2024

Added features

Allow users to setup some basic look and feel preferences such as:
- Changing the font size
- Adding one of the predefined background image to the board or choose a custom image.
- Setting up board colors, including the transparency level to accomodate the background image.
Improved screen layouts for supporting resolutions between 1366x768 and 3840x2160(4k)
Support for external chess engines, allowing users to add / remove and use any UCI compatible chess engine.
Added 4 easy engine analysis pre-configuration:
- Quick (10 seconds)
- Moderate (30 seconds)
- Strong (60 seconds)
- Very Strong (120 seconds)
Configurable muti-threaded background analyser that can now take advantage of multicore CPUs.
Games databases allowing you to :
- create, delete, move, rename databases
- mass import of games from correctly formatted external PGN files
- mass export of games to PGN files
- copy, move games from one database to another, delete games, or review past games.
- automatically save your endgames or complete games against the computer to a games database.
- setup separate engine configuration per database and run mass analysis.
Mistakes databases allowing users to :
- create, delete, move, rename databases
- copy, move mistakes from one database to another, delete mistakes or review and comment mistakes.
- automatically save approximations, small mistakes, big mistakes played in endgames or against the computer to a mistakes database.
Puzzle analysis :
- after each played puzzle, users can now request a complete puzzle analysis with the possibility to configure the engine that will perform the analysis.
The assistant will now allow users to also play good moves or approximation moves next to the best move, when playing endgames or when playing against the computer.
And may more small enhancements...

Bugs solved

(Major) When playing against the computer and pressing Ok to start a second game, and then trying to move the first piece as the white player in 'best move' mode, the assistant was sometime providing incorrect hints, blocking the game.
(Minor) some Stacktraces were shown in the logs due double calls (in certain conditions) to the dialog setVisible() method.

Chess Exerciser

Desired Feature

I did not see a way to save progress. Doing 155 problems , especially at higher levels requires a lot of time, so being able to save progress is a very desirable feature.

silverleaf1

Mar 13, 2024 @ 11:31am

General Discussions

Tactical Problems

Many, if not most, players are stronger recognizing some tactical patterns than others. An alternative might be to allow the players to pass individual tactical problem sections. Doing more than 100 problems, especially at higher levels, can be quite tiring for some players. Forcing players to focus on their relative tactical weaknesses would be a good thing....

silverleaf1

Sep 9, 2024 @ 10:25am

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So if most of the puzzles are from the free LiChess site...

...and the Stockfish engine is a free download, what exactly does Chess Exerciser offer for the price you're asking that I can't get for free elsewhere?

Umikaze

Jun 12, 2024 @ 12:15pm

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How much will Chess Exerciser cost?

I must know!

Prince Slug

Nov 4, 2023 @ 11:27am

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